Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland

Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland (September 15, 1855 – December 24, 1908) was an American journalist, author and playwright.

Early life A sixth-generation Bostonian, Sutherland was born on September 15, 1855, in Cambridge, Massachusetts to James and Rachael Arnold Greenleaf Baker. James Baker was a successful wholesale merchant who was active in the pre-Civil War anti-slavery movement and a close friend of Frederick Parker. Sutherland began her education at age three, around the time of her father's death, While still in her teens she began submitting works to national publications and was among the first to be awarded a prize from the fledgling St. Nicholas Magazine, for her essay "What is a Gentleman?". Sutherland collaborated with General Charles King on the military play Ft. Frayne and with Booth Tarkington on Monsieur Beaucaire. Over the last decade or so of her life, Sutherland would write a number of plays with her close friend Beulah Marie Dix.